List of town tramway systems in Asia

This is a list of Asian cities and towns that have, or once had, town tramway (urban tramway, or streetcar) systems as part of their public transport system. A separate list has been created for Japan to increase user-friendliness and reduce article size. Other geographic regions:

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Armenia

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Yerevan Երեւան	Horse	29 Sep 1906	Aug 1918 (?)
	Yerevan Երեւան	Electric	12 Jan 1933	21 Jan 2004

Azerbaijan

Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Bakı /Baku	Horse	19 Apr 1889	by 1 Oct 1923	See Trams in Baku.
	Steam	6 Oct 1889	ca. 1894
	Electric	8 Feb 1924	Jan 2004
Gəncə /Ganja	Electric	1 May 1933	16 Oct 1976	See Trams in Ganja, Azerbaijan.
Sumqayıt /Sumqayit	Electric	11 Mar 1959	Jul 2003	See Trams in Sumqayit.

China

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Ānshān 鞍山 /Anshan	Electric	15 Jan 1956	26 Feb 2004	[1]. Reconstruction as light rail transit (LRT) planned.
	Běijīng 北京 /Beijing	Electric	24 Jun 1899 17 Dec 1924	1900 6 May 1966	[2]. First system closed during the Boxer Rebellion.
	Chángchūn 长春 /Changchun	Electric	1937 (?) (or 1942)		[3].
	Dàlián 大连 /Dalian	Electric	25 Sep 1909		[4].
	Guǎngzhōu 广州 /Guangzhou	(Electric)			Construction started ca. 1934, not completed.
	Harbin (Hā'ěrbīn) 哈尔滨	Electric	10 Oct 1927	17 Jun 1987	[5].
	Nánjīng 南京 /Nanjing	Steam	?	?
	Nánjīng 南京 /Nanjing	Electric	?	?
	Shànghǎi 上海 /Shanghai	Electric	15 Mar 1908	1 Dec 1975	[6]. A Chinese source states that one tramway line was closed in 1963, however, Line 3, the last closed in 1975. reintroduced in 2010 as the Zhangjiang Tram.
Trams in Shenyang	Shěnyáng 沈阳 /Shenyang	Electric	Oct 1925	1973	[7].
Trams in Shenyang	Shěnyáng 沈阳 /Shenyang	Electric	15 Aug 2013
	Tiānjīn 天津 /Tianjin	Electric	16 Feb 1906	ca. 1972	[8],reintroduced in 2007 as the TEDA Modern Guided Rail Tram.

Georgia

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Gagra გაგრა	Horse	?	?
	Poti ფოთი	Horse	1904	1932
Tblisi	Tbilisi თბილისი	Horse	3 Apr 1883	1910
Tblisi	Tbilisi თბილისი	Electric	25 Dec 1904	4 Dec 2006	^[1]

Hong Kong

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Hong Kong Tramways Limited	Hong Kong Island	Electric	30 Jul 1904		[9]
MTR Light Rail	Tin Shui Wai, Tuen Mun, Yuen Long	Electric	18 Sep 1988

India

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Chennai சென்னை	Electric	7 May 1895	12 Apr 1953	[10] (formerly Madras)
	Delhi दिल्ली	Electric	6 Mar 1908	ca. 1963	[11], reintroduction planned.
	Kanpur कानपुर	Electric	Jun 1907	16 May 1933	[12] (formerly Cawnpore)
Calcutta Tramways Company Limited	Kolkata কলকাতা	Horse	Jan 1881	?	(formerly Calcutta)
Calcutta Tramways Company Limited	Kolkata কলকাতা	Electric	27 Mar 1902		[13].
	Mumbai मुंबई	Horse	9 May 1874	15 May 1908
	Mumbai मुंबई	Electric	7 May 1907	31 Mar 1964	[14] (formerly Bombay)

Indonesia

Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Jakarta	Horse	1869	?
	Steam	1881	?
	Electric	10 Apr 1899	1962	[15].
Surabaya	Steam	189_	?
Surabaya	Electric	27 Apr 1923	Jan 1968	[16].

Iran

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Tehran	Horse	18__	19__

Iraq

Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Baghdād بغداد	Horse	1871	194_	[17].
Najaf / Kufa	Horse	1871	194_	[18].
Basrah	Steam/narrow gauge	1900	194_	[19].

Japan

Kazakhstan

Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Almaty	Electric	1 Dec 1937	31 Oct 2015	Service indefinitely suspended in Oct 2015
Oskemen	Electric	6 Nov 1959
Pavlodar	Electric	18 Oct 1965
Karagandy	Electric	25 Aug 1950	1997
Temirtau	Electric	5 Sep 1959

Lebanon

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bayrūt بيروت /Beirut	Electric	19 Apr 1908	Sep 1965	[20].
	Ṭarābulus طرابلس /Tripoli	Horse	?	?	[21].

Malaysia

Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
George Town	Steam	1880	?
	Horse	1898	?
	Electric	1 Jan 1906	1936	[22].

Myanmar

Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Mandalay မန္တလေးမ္ရို့	Electric	17 Jun 1904	by 1945	[23].
Yangon ရန္‌ကုန္‌မ္ရို့	Steam	1884	?
Yangon ရန္‌ကုန္‌မ္ရို့	Electric	15 Dec 1906	by 1945	[24].

North Korea

Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Ch'ŏngjin 청진 (淸津)	Electric	20 Aug (or 21 Aug) 1999
P'yŏngyang 평양 (平壤)	Human	1905	1916
	Electric	20 May 1923	Aug 1950	[25]. First system closed because of war damage. See Pyongyang Tram.
	Electric	15 Apr 1991

Pakistan

Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Karachi كراچى	Steam	20 Apr 1885	?
	Horse	1886	?
	Petrol (gasoline)	1909	?	[26].
	Diesel	?	30 Apr 1975

Philippines

Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Manila	Horse	188_	?
	Steam	?	?
	Electric	10 Apr 1905	1944	[27].

Russia

Singapore

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Singapore	Steam	1885	1894
	Singapore	Electric	25 Jul 1905	9 Apr 1927	[28]. Experimental electric operations in Sep 1891 and Sep 1892. Re-introduction planned: Tampines, Woodlands or Jurong areas

South Korea

Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Busan 부산 (釜山)	Steam	?	?
Busan 부산 (釜山)	Electric	31 Oct 1915	20 May 1968	[29].
Seoul 서울	Electric	1 May 1899	29 Nov 1968	[30].

Sri Lanka

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Colombo	Electric	Sep 1898	1960	[31].

Syria

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Halab حلب /Aleppo	Electric	1929	1967	[32].
	Dimashq دمشق /Damascus	Electric	7 Feb 1907	1967	[33].

Thailand

Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Krung Thep Maha Nakhon กรุงเทพมหานคร /Bangkok	Horse	22 Sep 1887	?
Krung Thep Maha Nakhon กรุงเทพมหานคร /Bangkok	Electric	1 Jan 1893	1 Oct 1968	[34].
Lopburi ลพบุรี	Electric	31 Jan 1955	1962	[35].

Turkey

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Antalya	Electric	27 Mar 1999
Burtram	Bursa	Electric	28 May 2011 13 Oct 2013		Heritage tramway opened 28 May 2011; new street tramway opened 13 Oct 2013 [36].
EsTram	Eskişehir	Electric	24 Dec 2004
	Gaziantep	Electric	2009
	İstanbul - Europe	Horse	30 Aug 1869	1912
		Electric	1914	12 Aug 1961	See Trams in Istanbul.
		Electric	29 Dec 1990 13 Jun 1992		Heritage tramway [37] opened 29 Dec 1990 [38]. New street tramway opened 13 Jun 1992 [39]; second street tramway opened 12 Sep 2007. See Istanbul nostalgic tramways & Istanbul modern tramways.
	♦ İstanbul - Asia	Electric	8 Jun 1928	14 Nov 1966	See Trams in Istanbul.
	♦ İstanbul - Asia	Electric	1 Nov 2003		Heritage tramway opened 1 Nov 2003 [40]. See Istanbul nostalgic tramways.
	İzmir	Horse	?	?
	İzmir	Electric	18 Oct 1928	1954
İzmir
2017	[41].
İzmit
Kocaeli
Electric	2016/2017
Kayseray	Kayseri	Electric	2 Jan 2009
	Konya	Electric	28 Sep 1992
	Samsun	Electric	10 Oct 2010		Categorized as light rail.

Uzbekistan

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Samarqand	Electric	1 May 1947	30 Aug 1973	&nbsp	Toshkent	Horse	13 Apr 1901	1913
Electric	10 Jan 1913	1 May 2016	Operation suspended 1918 - 1921 because of war (see Russian Civil War).

Vietnam

Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Hanoi	Electric	10 Nov 1901^[2]	1990^[2]	reintroduction planned
Ho Chi Minh City	Steam	27 Dec 1881^[2]	?
Ho Chi Minh City	Electric	4 Aug 1923^[2]	ca. 1953^[2]	Connected Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) with Hóc Môn and Thủ Dầu Một^[2]

References

[1] Столица Грузии отказалась от трамваев и троллейбусов - новости Украины на ЛІГА.Новости

[vn-trams-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Tram Views of Asia: Indochina

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